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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






2. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






3. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






4. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






5. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






6. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






7. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






8. The dictionary meaning of a word.






9. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






10. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






11. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






12. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






13. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






14. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






15. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






16. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






17. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






18. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






19. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






20. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






21. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






22. The selection of words in a literary work.






23. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






24. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






25. A short saying with a moral.






26. The main character of a literary work.






27. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






28. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






29. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






30. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






31. A strong pause within a line.






32. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






33. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






35. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






36. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






37. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






38. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






39. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






40. The time and place of a story or play.






41. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






42. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






43. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






44. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






45. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






47. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






49. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






50. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.